Chapter 8: The Prehistory of Written Language: "There's also a story about Picasso in which someone asked him why he didn't draw representational images. Picasso asked the man for an example of what he meant, so the questioner produced a photograph of his wife. Picasso then asked the man if his wife was really 5 centimeters tall, two dimensional, was nothing but a head, and had skin tones that were shades of gray (Picasso also famously said that when he was a child he had drawn like Raphael, but it had taken the rest of his life in order to learn to draw like a child)."

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Life without art...



The world is full of puzzling art and many artists appear to be either mentally ill or ego maniacal sociopaths obsessed with personal aggrandizement. Some seem to be confused and perplexed by a world they do not embrace. They clutter their homes and public spaces with scribbles and scrawls that have no apparent purpose or social value. They fill useless sketchbooks with gibberish and childish nonsense. They use public funds to express aberrant ideas and unintelligible drivel. This unholy lot of miscreants pollute the masses with foolish ideas and perverted logic. They dress funny and some have esoteric lifestyles that influence the youth of the world. They constantly search for answers to questions that have no answers. Their bizarre behavior makes them difficult friends and determined enemies. However, without them life would be a monochromatic two dimensional world.

Copyright 2009 © Ronald D. Isom, Sr.
Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece. Vladimir Nabokov

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